Aug.
15, 2003 ó NOAA today posted online satellite images taken before and
after of the historic blackout of the Northeastern United States, which
plunged millions of people into darkness. NOAA processed the night lights
data taken by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP).
NOAA archives the data from the satellite.
(Click NOAA image for larger view of blackout in the Northeastern
USA taken Aug. 14, 2003, at 9:03 p.m. EDT. Click
here for higher resolution version, which is a large file. [Click
here for 2160 x 1620 version.] NOAA processed the data from the
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Please credit NOAA/DMSP.)

(Click
NOAA image for larger view of night lights before the blackout in the
Northeastern USA taken Aug. 13, 2003, at 9:21 p.m. EDT. Click
here for higher resolution version, which is a large file. [Click
here for 2160 x 1620 version.] NOAA processed the data from the
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. Please credit NOAA/DMSP.)

NOAA
also has available a USA night lights cloud-free composite image taken
by the DMSP from Oct. 1, 1994, to March 31, 1995. NOAA processed the
data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite. (Click NOAA
image for larger view of a cloud-free composite of USA night lights
taken from Oct. 1, 1994, to March 31, 1995. NOAA processed the data
taken by the Defense Meteorological Defense Program. Click
here for higher resolution version, which is a large file. Please
credit NOAA/DMSP.)

The following
two images measure 1920 pixels x 1200 pixels.

The following
images were processed by the Air Force Weather Agency.
There are two versions of each image, with and without annotations.

Please
credit the following images to the Air Force Weather Agency or AFWA.
They processed the images using the DMSP. The images measure 959 x 719.

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